Whitney Plantation Tour Guides. Though most tourgoers hoped to visit whitney plantation, many were impressed with oak alley. Instead, i found myself mesmerized by the stories, philosophy and history shared by our guide during a tour of the plantation outside new orleans.
As a site of memory and consciousness, the whitney plantation museum is meant to pay homage to all enslaved people on the plantation itself and to all of those who lived elsewhere in the united states. Within the boundaries of the “habitation haydel”, as the whitney plantation was originally known, the story of the haydel family of german immigrants and the slaves that they held were intertwined. This was a very interesting and informative tour.
See laura and oak alley plantations on this combination tour.
It was really rainy and most of the tour is outdoors so i'll actually be going back again this weekend if the weather holds up. The tour was thought provoking and memorable. The tour at whitney plantation museum of slavery was so sobering that i actually found it difficult to take notes or many photos. In 2014, the whitney plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in louisiana with a focus on slavery.